Santa Claus Short Bread

Serves 6 to 8 people

Ingredients

- 400 gr of flour

- 250 gr of butter

- 2 eggs

-2 00 gr of sugar

- 2 tsp of baking powder

-2 tsp of cinnamon powder

-1/2 tsp of salt

-2 glasses of orange juice

-2 tsp of honey

-1 dash of rum (optional)

Utensils

-1 hot plate

-1 large bowl

-1 rolling-pin

-punch

-parchment paper

Method

First, cube the butter in the large bowl

Second, add the sugar,the flour,the honey,the salt,the cinnamon powder, the eggs, a dash of rum (optional) in the large bowl and mix together until the preparation becomes smooth.

Third, let the preparation cool in refrigerator during two hours.

Next spread the dough with the rolling-pin and preheat the oven at 180°C.

After that cut the dough with the punch and impregnate it with the orange juice.

Finally let bake the preparation for 12 minutes.

Comments

For my recipe I have chosen ingredients from lots of places in the world and that we can find at Christmas. 
My cake called Santa Claus Short-Bread is inspired by the original Short-Bread from Great-Britain (Scotland), then I added honey from Egypt, orange from China and cinnamon from Asia. The whole recipe comes from the East of the world. Concerning the character of Santa Claus who gives his name to my cakes, it takes his origins in America.

To conclude my recipe illustrates peace and love in the world that we can only find for Christmas. Besides Christmas is unique, but celebrates all over the world, my cakes represents the world's impact of Christmas.

Lemon Coco Cake

Ingredients
- A large bowl
- A cake pan
- Malibu
- Lemon juice
- One lemon (for zest)
- Shredded coconut
-Three eggs
- Three yoghurt of flour
- One and half yoghurt of rapeseed oil
- One yoghurt of brown sugar (or sugar)

Method

1. First, preheat the oven to one hundred and eighty degrees

2. Then, mix in a large bowl three eggs, three yoghurt pots of flour, one and half yoghurt pot of rapeseed oil, one yoghurt of brown sugar (or white sugar if you don't have brown one), two tablespoons of Malibu, the zest of three lemons and shredded coconut (in the order!)

3. After that, mixing well the preparation and add it four tablespoons of lemon juice and mixing well again

4. Next, put in the buttered cake pan (or in a silicone pan) and bake for forty minutes

5. Finally, dust the cake with shredded coconut again, cut into slices and enjoy

Personal comments

The lemon coco cake is not a simple cake for me, in my dish, I wanted to show the link between Spain (for the lemon), Malaysia (for the coconut) and England (for the cake obviously).

I want England to accept Spain and Malaysia in their diversity of culture and food. And I think if I integrate English food with Spanish and Malaysian food in dishes of English people, I'm sure it could be possible to integrate it into the English system.

I love English, Spanish and Malaysian food. I think it could be interesting to mix three countries into the same cake, three very different countries in their diversity of culture, language and traditions... And it's a good challenge to merge all of this into one unique cake.

I know Malaysian culture is not really famous, but I'm here to help Malaysian food to seduce English people; I want to show that the mix of Malaysian, Spanish and English culture is very interesting and delicious.

by Grégory Moncassin

British Pizza

Ingredients 1 tsp yeast 1 ½ cup of warm water 4 ½ cups of flour 1 tbsp of olive oil 6 tbsp of tomato sauce 4 porc sausages 4 pieces of bacon 4 mushrooms graped cheese (cheddar) 1 egg Method First you have to make your dough. So in a large bowl drop 1 tsp of yeast, 1 cup of warm water, 4 ½ cups of flour, 1 tbsp of olive oil, then mix with your hands until you get a nice firm dough, put it a side. Then you're going to chop your bacon,mushroom and sausages, and cook them all together, to give it more taste in a cooking pan. Afterwards take ck your dough spread it on a large pizza plate, then spread your tomato sauce equally on it and drop your filling of chopped mushrooms, bacon and sausages, on top of it and drop the grated cheddar cheese. Place it in the oven for about 20min, take it out crack the egg in the middle and put it back in the oven for about 10min until the egg is cooked. Personal  comments I chose to do a British/Italian pizza because Italian food is my absolute favourite !!! I think it's really tasty and classy, i love it ! But I also love British food even if isn't as classy as Italian food it's my origins and I'm proud of that. So I thought "Why not try and mix my two favourite types of food?" I thought of it as some kind of challenge, since those two types of food are not the same at all !  Italian food is a delicacy, it's hard working, pushing cooking to the perfection. British food is greasy, and more of a fun way to eat (at least for me it is). I chose the pizza to be the base of this dish and took the British breakfast ingredients for the topping, since British breakfast it one of the best British dishes ever. And there you have it, a dish with my two favourite types of food. I think it makes a good mix, and it could be a new connection between Italy and UK, and it is really good. Enjoy ! By Eva A.

Appel Clafoutis with maple syrup and vanilla pod

Utensils

- A pie dish

- A medium mixing bowl

- A sharp knife

- A whisk

- 1 Tablespoon

Ingredients
- 3 apples
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1/2 pt of milk
- 1 tbsp of vanilla sugar
- 1 tbsp of oil

- 1 Vanilla pod from Madagascar
- Maple Syrup
- Butter


Method
First, preheat the oven at 180° (thermostat 6). Take the butter and spread it on the pie dish.
Next, peel the apples and cube them finely. Place them in the pie dish.
After that, break the eggs and whisk them with 1 cup of sugar until they are white and become voluminous.
Then, add 1 cup of flour, one tbsp of vanilla sugar, 1/2 pt of milk, 1 tbsp of oil. Take a vanilla pod, cut it in two pieces and take the vanilla seeds. Put the extract of vanilla in the mixture and mix.
Now, pour the mixture in the pie dish and place it in the oven for 20 minutes.
When the pie is firm, pour the Maple Syrup on it for the taste and to decorate. Enjoy!

Personal Comments
First, I chose this recipe because the Apple pie is a delicious dessert.
I chose to add Vanilla from Madagascar and Maple Syrup because I love foreign ingredients. Through this recipe, I wanted to say that everybody can live together and share their own culture with others.
We can learn a lot of things about foreign people when we eat their dishes, learn a lot about their cultures, their different food habits and traditions.
And when we understand what is to share, we can also share our traditions with other people. We have a lot of things to learn about the world. And I think the world is like a big dish that we have to taste. That's why I chose this dessert.

New Roses of Sand

Ingredients 300 g of chocolate 200 g of corn flakes 1 cup of milk 4 tablespoons of maple syrup coconut powder Method - First break in a pan 300 g of chocolate with 1 cup of milk, put in large bowl 200 g of corn flakes. - Next let the chocolate melt and turn with a wooden spoon, when the chocolate is melted incorporate 4 tablespoons of  maple syrup. - Then remove the pan and pose one the table, after that add the corn flakes in the pan and stir slowly . Put the preparation in the small dishes use 2 spoons  and make small heap. Sprinkle of coconut powder. - Finally place in refrigerator for 20 minutes. Personal  comments I have created this recipe because, I love  cooking and it's very easy, I think it 's easy to marry 2 country and it's hilarious, I have never travelling then I have taken 2 countries where I would like to go in the future. This dish has not got precise origins but my recipe incorporates two influences, two countries that are very different: Africa with the coconut  and Canada with the famous Maple syrup. With this dish you can to taste new flavours. One day a person had said " You cannot travel with a dish " but  I say you can if you have a little imagination.

Carribean avocados.

Ingredients

- 4 avocados

- 200 grams of bacon

- 200 grams of rice

- 4 decilitres rum

- 1 handful of red beans

- coconut milk

- 12 lychees

- olive oil

- sugar

- water

Utensils

- a pan

- tablespoon

- large plate to serve

Method

First, fry the bacon in a pan with a tablespoon of olive oil, then add beans for 2 or 3 minutes.

Second, stir rice in the mixture ans pour in the coconut milk. Simmer for 40minutes.

Third, during the last 5 minutes pour the rum.

Meanwhile, cut the avocados in half and remove the core.

Fourth, in a hot pan, place the water and sugar to make a sweet caramel. And drop the avocados cut to coat with a thin layer of caramel and let it cool to room.

Fifth, once cooled, put the Caribbean rice in the hole of avocados.

Sixth, prepare the dish in a large plate to serve accompanied with salad and lychees peeled and pitted then the whole thing your guests !

Enjoy !

Personal comments

Despite cultural differences, we can still create a colourful dish linking Mexico, Asia and the Caribbean.

Chocolate, Cinnamon and Banana Macaroons

Ingredients
- 7 oz of icing sugar
- 4oz of almond powder
- 3 eggs whites
- 1 tbsp of cocoa
- 1 tbsp of cinnamon
- 1 oz of caster sugar
- 3 oz of white chocolate
- 1/6 cup of cream
- 5 tbsp of banana purée

Method 
First, sift the icing sugar, the almond powder, the cinnamon and the cocoa in a large bowl.

Second, whip eggs whites in medium sized bowl until they are stiff. Add the caster sugar little by little.
Third, stir gently the egg preparation into the large bowl until the mixture becomes smooth.
Then, form small circles with the mixture on the baking paper with teaspoons.
After that, set aside for two hours.
In the meantime, put the white chocolate and the cream in a saucepan until the chocolate is melted.
Next, remove from the heat and add the banana purée
Then, set aside the fridge for a few hours.
Preheat the oven at 170°C.
Next, bake for 11 minutes.
Eventually, spread the banana ganache on each macaroon and assemble them.

Personal comments

The recipe is traditionally European but I have chosen to put the cinnamon and banana which come from Africa and cocoa which comes from America. It symbolizes the agreement between those three communities that have very different cultures. 
These three continents have a very special relationship because since the 16^th century there are a lot of tensions because of the colonization.
 In fact, nearly 30 million of slaves died in sugar cane and cocoa plantations. These slaves were imported from Africa to America to produce cocoa and the same boats exported the cocoa into France to be transformed in chocolate. 
Then, the boats imported manufactured goods to Africa. These three continents are representative of the triangular commerce which had led the word economy for nearly three centuries. In the recipe, colonization is modified to reach a unique cake which only exists if the three continents are united. 
The colours are inverted to fight against prejudice. America is represented by the cocoa and Africa is represented by the banana which is white. Europe is the continent where all the mix of populations is possible. 

Through my recipe, I imagine a world where racism does not exist any more. I imagine a world where everybody lives in peace and harmony but where everybody keeps their own identity, which makes them different. That’s why I didn’t cook a mixing of black and white but a union between Europe, Africa and America.

By Maguelone Javerzac

Bamoke Cake

Ingredients   

9 Oz of flour
4 eggs
oil
White wine
5 Oz of Gruyère

1 packet of yeast

8 round slices of bacon
10 dried tomatoes
1 mozzarella
2,5 Oz of nuts

Utensils 

1 large bowl
1 mould
An oven
2 tablespoons
1 knife

Method

First, preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
Second, put the floor into a large bowl with the eggs and mix a little bit with 2 tablespoons.
Third, in the large bowl, add 10 tablespoons of oil and 10 tablespoons of white wine. Mix.
Then, take a knife and cut the bacon into slices, and cut the mozzarella into pieces.
Add the bacon and the mozzarella in the large bowl, with 5 Oz of Gruyère, 2,5 Oz of nuts and a packet of yeast. Mix all with your tablespoons.
Shed the mix into a mould.
Then, put the mould into the oven, wait 40 minutes, it's ready !

Personal comments
I made this recipe because of my origins. When I saw that we had to do a work related with another country, I immediately thought about my family origins. So I took my three family origins which are : American origins from my grandfather, Italian origins from my grandmother, French from the rest of the family.
I took the American origin from my grandfather who lived in California for 10 years. Bacon is a typical American food ! I took the Italian origin from my grandmother who was born in Italy and lived there for 8 years. Mozzarella is typically Italian food ! And then, I took my French origins from the rest of family and added the rest of the ingredients.
Then I wanted a base for my recipe, and I chose the cake. In the cake we can add anything so it was easy to make.

Hope you will enjoy it ! Thanks for reading. Have a nice day !

By Delpech Constant

World Sushis

Ingredients
- 11 oz of rice ( 300 g)
-2 apples
-1 kiwi
- 4 tbsp of cocoa
-2 oz of dried cranberries
-1/2 cup of water ( 350 ml)

Utensils
- A sauce pan
- A medium sized bowl
- A sharp knife
- A service dish


Method
1. First, pour the water in the saucepan until it boils. 
2. Second, add the rice in the saucepan until it absorbs all the water.
3. Third, peel and cube the apple and the kiwi with the sharp knife.
4. Next, make a ball with rice and insert a cube of kiwi and a cube of apple inside the ball of rice.
5. Finally, decorate with the cranberries and sprinkle a little cocoa on your sushi.
6. Repeat the two operations until there’s no more rice.

Personal comments

In this recipe, I chose one ingredient to represent each continent : rice represents Asia, cocoa represents Africa, kiwis represent Australia, and apples represent Europe.
I think this recipe can show multiculturalism is a good thing, because in cuisine, if everyone adds a little thing, everyone can make a good recipe. 

Everyone is different and if each culture adds something personal in a recipe, it could please everyone. For example, I love Asian culture, particularly Japanese culture. But they haven’t got chocolate in their traditional food, so I decided to make a Japanese recipe with chocolate. Everyone can add a speciality to something he or she likes, and it will give something better.

by Athénaïs Benissad

Lemon Yoghurt Cake and Apple Crumble

Ingredients (serves 4)

- 3 eggs

- 175 grams of white sugar

- One pinch of salt

- 10 cl of oil

- The grated zest of one lemon

- One whole milk yoghurt

- 200 grams of flour

- One bag of baking powder

- One bag of vanilla extract

- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder

- 5 granny apples

- The juice of one lemon

- A knob of butter for the dish

Utensils

- A peeler

- A knife

- A plate

- A bowl

- A whisk

 Method

1. First, wash the apples and peel.

2. Second, cut in cubes and put in a buttered plate.

3. Third, press the lemon and drop the juice on the apples.

4. Next, break the eggs in a bowl.

5. Next, add the sugar in the bowl and whisk the eggs with the sugar until the mixture whitens and makes a ribbon when you lift the whisk.

6. Meanwhile, drop the oil while continuing to whisk.

7. Then, add the zest of the lemon, the yoghurt, the flour, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder, one bag of vanilla extract, one bag of baking powder and one pinch of salt.

8. Next, mix the ingredients together to obtain a homogeneous mixture.

9. After that, pour the mixture in the plate over the apples.

10. Finally, preheat the oven at 190° and bake the preparation for 45 minutes until the cake is firm.

Personal Comments

The apple crumble is a typically English and the yoghurt cake is typically French. 
I have created this recipe in order to mix these two cultures together, and according to me, that symbolizes peace between England and France.
These two countries maintained an adversarial relationship before because of the Hundred Years War. 
The acidity of the granny apples symbolizes the war and the sweetness of the cake symbolizes reconciliation. 
About multiculturalism, the message that I have tried to deliver through this recipe is that there are many contacts between England and France and a lot of friendship or love between English and French people. 
England is part of the European Union and the English is one of the first languages learned by French students ; and to me, this recipe symbolizes exchanges, love, peace and fraternity between our two countries.

Asian Bricks

Method 1. First, cook the rice as usual and put it in a large bowl. 
2. Then, add a box of tomato tuna.
3. Mix the ingredients vigorously.
4. Then, add a pinch two or three pinches of cinnamon, 2 pinches of paprika and a pinch of salt.
5. Mix everything well again.
6. Now you're mixture is ready.
7. Then, takes the leaves of bricks and add your mixture into, make a form, one you like. For example, triangles, little gifts...
8. Then, with the aid of a brush "paint" your bricks with egg yolks.
9. Now, you can bake them in a frying pan with two tablespoons of oil, during 5 or 10mn, until they are golden.

Personal comments To me, the "Asian bricks" are the fusion between two countries; Indonesia and Tunisia. Indonesia, because of the rice, indeed it comes from Asia. And Tunisia, because the bricks are from there. 
I chose these two countries because I really love them, I have been  in Indonesia two times, and I am from North Africa, or rather, my grandparents are. It's an easy recipe, and I think, I hope, people will like this dish a lot.
I made this dish because I think it's very interesting to mix two really different dishes into one, two different cultures, different kinds of people.
We should do this more often, absorb and adapt external influences to our country and make people discover our culture and influences too. 
It's really important for me to be open-minded, and share what I like with people around me who are interested to discover new things too. 

German Stars With Salted Butter And Amaretti Powder

Method

1. First, preheat the oven at 180°. 
Meanwhile, mix 6 ounces of flour, 1 pinch of milled ginger, 1/2 teaspoon of four spices, 1/2 of cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of almond flour in a medium sized bowl. Add 2 ounces of salted butter and stir with fingers until you get a cookie dough.

2. Next, blend 3 ounces of brown sugar, and pour 2 tablespoons of sugar cane syrup and 2 tablespoons of milk in the mixture. Mix well until the dough becomes thick.

3.Then, put the batter on a floured plate. Knead until it's homogeneous and spread it (the batter must still be 1,5 cm inch thick)

4. Next, cut the mixture in stars shapes. Put them on a plate and let them cool.

5. After that, heat up in the oven while 10 or 12 minutes. Take the biscuits out of the oven and let them cool a little. And put them on another plate.

6. While they're cooling, prepare the glaze: in a little bowl, little by little, include 2 ounces of sifted caster sugar to an egg white until you get a thick liquid.

7. Finally, brush the surface of the biscuits with glaze using a brush or a pastry bag.

You can place them on a plate.

Personal comments

For me, who don't specially like cooking, a dish can tell lots of things about a country, about its traditions and what is special about it. But we can also add a message to a dish, so that it can allude to history, for example. 
That's why I chose to take a German dish as the basis of my recipe, and add salted butter used in France and in England, and finally the powder of an Italian amaretto (made with almond). These four countries were at war in the past, I think of the World Wars that were unprecedented massacres.
From then on, people have considered German people as Nazis. For how long? Shouldn't we leave it away, without forgetting what happened but change our mentalities? 
Germans are not Nazis, as all French people are not royalists (American stereotype of French people, also called "froggies"by the British). 
According to me, the union of these countries could be enriching. We should take advantage of this union.

Pancakes and Hummus

Ingredients
- 130 grams of drained chickpeas
- 2 tablespoons of cumin
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- 1 clove of garlic
- 360 miles of milk
- 2 tablespoons of coriander leaves
- 250 grams of flour
-1 tablespoon of yeast
- 2 eggs
- butter
- 1 carrot
- 10 olives 
- salt

Utensils
- a blender
- a whisk
- a large bowl
- a small bowl
- a frying pan

 Method

1. First, make the hummus : in a blender, put 130g of drained chickpeas, 1/2 tablespoon of cumin, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, a clove of garlic, 60ml of milk and 2 tablespoons of coriander leaves finely chopped.

2. Then, mix all the ingredients until the mixture is smooth. Your hummus is ready.

3. Now, in a large bowl, mix 250g of flour, 1 tablespoon of yeast and a pinch of salt.

4. Then, add 30cl of milk and stir it with a whisk.

5. Then, break 2 eggs and mix them in a small bowl.

6. Now, add the eggs in the pancake batter.

7. Next, take a tablespoon of melted butter.

8. Then, grate a carrot and cut 10 olives in two parts.

9. Add them in the large bowl and dust with a pinch of cumin.

10. Now, put everything in a frying pan and let heat.

11. Finally, add the hummus on each pancake and taste!

Personal comments

Taste and savour this delicious dish! "Pancake and Hummus" will make you travel with its different origins.

Indeed, the famous pancake is of German origin and was brought to America by the Settlers. As for hummus, we don't know the exact origin; Israel and Lebanon argue the paternity.

These dishes, separately, have a common point : they travelled across countries, and their culture and their concrete origin remain a bit fuzzy.

That is why, beyond their culinary alliance, I wanted to create a new dish which will erase these questions and conflicts, because these two dishes actually form only one...

"Pancake and Hummus" is based, over all, on multiculturalism : a result which is beneficial for everything and everybody. It is very interesting to see, here for example, how good it can be to mix different culinary origins. We can discover new savours, new ingredients, etc. Thanks to this, we learn a lot about countries.

By Camille Laperche.